Football World Cup 1990 / Czechoslovakia

This article covers the Czechoslovak national football team at the 1990 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Belgium	15: 5	12
2	Czechoslovakia	13: 3	12
3	Portugal	11: 8	10
4th	Switzerland	10:14	5
5	Luxembourg	3:22	1

Luxembourg	-	Czechoslovakia	0: 2
Czechoslovakia	-	Belgium	0-0
Belgium	-	Czechoslovakia	2: 1
Czechoslovakia	-	Luxembourg	4-0
Switzerland	-	Czechoslovakia	0: 1
Czechoslovakia	-	Portugal	2: 1
Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland	3-0
Portugal	-	Czechoslovakia	0-0

Czechoslovak contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Jan Stejskal	Sparta Prague	01/15/1962	5	0	0	0
21st	Luděk Mikloško	West Ham United	December 9, 1961	0	0	0	0
22nd	Petr Paluch	Plastika Nitra	02/17/1958	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Július Bielik	Sparta Prague	03/08/1962	2	0	0	0
3	Miroslav Kadlec	FC Vítkovice	06/22/1964	5	0	1	0
5	Ján Kocian	FC St. Pauli	03/13/1958	4th	0	1	0
6th	František Straka	Borussia Monchengladbach	05/28/1958	3	0	2	0
8th	Jozef Chovanec	PSV Eindhoven	03/07/1960	5	0	1	0
12	Petr fever	DAC Dunajská Streda	May 16, 1964	0	0	0	0
15th	Vladimír Kinier	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	04/06/1958	1	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Ivan Hašek	Sparta Prague	09/06/1963	5	1	1	0
7th	Michal Bílek	Sparta Prague	04/13/1965	5	2	1	0
9	Luboš Kubík	AC Florence	01/20/1964	4th	1	2	0
11	Ľubomír Moravčík	Plastika Nitra	06/22/1965	5	0	2	1
13	Jiří Němec	Dukla Prague	05/15/1966	0	0	0	0
14th	Vladimír Weiss	FK Inter Bratislava	09/22/1964	3	0	0	0
16	Viliam Hýravý	Baník Ostrava	11/26/1962	0	0	0	0
20th	Václav Němeček	Sparta Prague	01/25/1967	3	0	0	0
striker
10	Tomáš Skuhravý	Sparta Prague	07.09.1965	5	5	1	0
17th	Ivo Knoflíček	FC St. Pauli	02/23/1962	5	0	1	0
18th	Milan Luhový	Dukla Prague	01/01/1963	1	1	0	0
19th	Stanislav Griga	Sparta Prague	04/11/1961	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Jozef Vengloš		02/18/1936

Czechoslovak team matches

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Italy	4-0	6th
2	Czechoslovakia	6: 3	4th
3	Austria	2: 3	2
4th	United States	2: 8	0

• United States - Czechoslovakia 1: 5 (0: 2)

Stadium: Stadio Comunale ( Florence )

Spectators: 33,266

Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger ( Switzerland )

Goals: 0: 1 Skuhravý (25th), 0: 2 Bílek (39th) 11 m , 0: 3 Hašek (50th), 1: 3 Caligiuri (61st), 1: 4 Skuhravý (78th), 1 : 5 Luhový (90.)

• Austria - Czechoslovakia 0: 1 (0: 1)

Stadium: Stadio Comunale ( Florence )

Spectators: 38,962

Referee: George Smith ( England )

Goals: 0: 1 Bílek (30th) 11 m

• Italy - Czechoslovakia 2: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Rome Olympic Stadium

Spectators: 73,303

Referee: Joël Quiniou ( France )

Goals: 1-0 Schillaci (9th), 2-0 Baggio (78th)

Host Italy still struggled in Group A against outsiders Austria and USA in the 1-0 successes, but against the supposedly strongest opponent, the ČSFR, they managed a 2-0 victory, in which the already won the match Salvatore 'Toto' Schillaci, who emerged from Austria and was actually only added to the squad as a supplementary player, scored again. The Czechoslovaks trumped the USA 5-1, also kept Austria 1-0 at a distance and finished second in the group.

Round of 16

47,673

San Nicola Stadium ( Bari )

Czechoslovakia

Costa Rica

Siegfried Kirschen ( Germany )

4: 1 (1: 0)

1: 0 Skuhravý (12th) 1: 1 González (54th) 2: 1 Skuhravý (63rd) 3: 1 Kubík (75th) 4: 1 Skuhravý (82nd)

Tomas Skuhravy, CSFR striker, shot down Costa Rica almost single-handedly with his three goals. For an hour the Central Americans were able to make the match evenly, then the strength of the Eastern Europeans prevailed. With 4: 1, the victory was ultimately clear.

Quarter finals

73,347

Giuseppe Meazza Stadium ( Milan )

Germany

Czechoslovakia

Helmut Kohl ( Austria )

1: 0 (1: 0)

1: 0 Matthew (25th) 11 m

Germany had to compete with the ČSFR, which played so furiously against Costa Rica. Lothar Matthäus put the favorites in the lead with a penalty kick in the 24th minute and the Germans dominated the opponent for long stretches of the encounter, but in the end Völler and Klinsmann could not convince on that day. On the contrary: Despite Moravcik's dismissal (70th for 'improper shoe throwing'), the Czechoslovaks got the upper hand again in the final phase and ten of them still managed to score a few chances. The Germans struggled to reach the semi-finals.